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Ask HN: What should I do with ~3kw/day surplus solar electricity?
3 points by jimbursch1 on May 20, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 9 comments
I am currently only using about a third of the electricity my home solar+battery system produces. The surplus is going to the grid where I am accumulating credits from my utility. Could I be using this electricity for something else, better than sending it to the grid? Or, maybe there are fun/interesting ways I could be using it? For some reason purifying water or producing hydrogen comes to mind, but not sure that makes any sense.


Do you mean 3kwh/day of energy, or an output that has a daily peak of 3kw? Or something else?

Because kw/day isn't a sensible unit for either total energy or output.


Ah, correction, 3kW is the peak, 15kWh sent to grid.


How do you produce 3kw/day? How many solar panels do you have? Where do you live?


It’s a 4.25 kW system with 10 solar panels and a Powerwall in Los Angeles.


Create a big freezer room to store big amounts of meat or other foods for other people


Keep servers runing, offer a mini cloud or webhosting using that electricity


To charge electric cars in your neighborhood maybe is a good idea?


Make a cryptocurrency of course.


Alkali metal production.




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